Be sure to support the car securely , either on jack stands or blocks so that it is solid. Just remove the four bolts on the u-joint end and slide the shaft to the rear. Be sure to take care that you don't damage the yoke coming out of the trans. This will just slide out . If the yoke is scratched or damaged it will cause the seals to fail in the tail shaft of the trans and you will loose transmission lubricant. Removing the propeller shaft is not a hard project . You will find that you will need to rotate the shaft to enable fitting a wrench to the nuts . There is not much room. So with the rear wheels off the ground this is easy to turn. Gazza

cheers for this

and Gary you have been plenty of help appreciate it

next weekend i got a 4 day weekend so will do it then , the amount of play was plenty there was about 1CM i couldn't believe it